Glove-fastening



(No Model.)

DSHIPMAN.,

. GLOVE FASTBNING.

10.433,866. Patented 00u21, 1890.

Invenozi UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MADISON D. SHIPMAN, OF DE KALB, ILLINOIS.

GLOVE-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 438,866, dated October 21, 1890.

Original applications filed April 20, 1887, Serial Nos. 235,539 and 235,540. Divided and this application filed March 17, 1888.

Serial No. 267,448. (No model.)

tons, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists more specially in the combination of devices and elements hereinafter described, vand set forth in the claims; and the object of my invention is to provide in the button-heads of separable buttons a simple means by which the fabric will bel tightly clamped between the principal shells and parts of the button-head and have a studholding device secured within the buttonhead and also to the fabric, and also to provide a sectional shell form of bulb-like stud, which will hold with the stud-holding device in the button-head, while the stud itself will be securely attached to the fabric. I attain these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication, in which- Figure l is a vertical section of a buttonhead containing my invention. Fig. 2 is the same having a supplementary spring. Fig. 3 is the same with the substitution of a springplate. Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the outer clamping-piece and of one form of exterior shell of the button-head before being secured to the fabric and before receiving the inner clampingpiece and the stud-holding plate. Fig. 5 is a sectional lview of the inner clamping-piece detached from the outer clampingpiece and before receiving the stud-holding plate. Fig. 6 is a plan View of the stud-holding plate detached from the inner clampingpiece. Fig. 7 is a partial section of the inner clamping-piece with the studholding plate secured to the same and the walls of the central opening in the latter slightly turned outward. Fig. 8 isa sectional View of a stud and its adjuncts secured to the fabric. Fig. 9 is a sectional view of the stud-piece before its top is converged and before being secured to its base-piece by being broadened at its lower end. Fig. l0 isa view of the stud after being completed and secured to its base-piece. Figs. 11 and 12 are sectional views of the upper and lower clamping-pieces used for securing the stud to the fabric.

The same letters of reference refer to like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A represents the outer clamping-piece of the button-head.

B is the inner clamping-piece of the same. C is the outer inclosing-shell of the buttonhead, and D the stud-holding plate. The outer clamping-piece A is made with a con- 6o cavo-convex shell form from any suitable sheet metal, and has provided in its apex the central opening a, as shown in Figs. l, 2, 3, and 4. The outer clamping-piece is made in its outer form and size to about correspond with the size and form of the concavity of the outer inclosing-shell C, so as to fill the body of the latter, and it is secured within the latter by the lower margin edge portion of the base 0f said shell beingturned against 7o the lower or base edge of the said outer clamping-piece A, as illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, or vice versa. 'Ihe outer inclosing-shell C can have its apex made with central perforation, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, or its apex 75 can be made solid, if desired, as illustrated in Figs. l and 2; but Whether made with a perforation or solid there is provided in the portion of the shell C at the point of the impact of the neck of the inner clamping-piece 8o B, an annular concavity or groove c, the purpose of which will be hereinafter explained. The stud-holding plate D in its substantial form, as preferred to be used by me, is

shown by plan view in Fig. 6 and in section l85 in Figs. 3 and 7-that is to say, this studhol'ding plate is made to be elastic in its portion surrounding the central stud-receiving open-ing d by radial slits d', so as to allow the head of the stud when inelastic to be passed 9o through said opening by the force of a thrust, when this opening will be expanded so as to allow the larger diameter of the stud-head to pass through, after which the opening will v contract, so that the margin edge of said opening will engage with the stud-head at a point below its largest diameter. The outer portion of the stud-holding plate is made substantially of a 'circular form and with'dimensions corresponding with cross-diameter roo of the interior of the inner clamping-piece B at the lower base-margin of the latter, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 7, and it can be made of sheet metal and provided with a central stud-receiving opening d without the slits d for use with an elestic stud, as shown in Fig. 1, or it can be supplemented by the usual wire spring- S, resting on said plate partially over the opening CZ therein. lf it be desired to increase the elasticity of plate D, its margin can be cut away, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. G. The margin of opening d can be turned back upon itself, as shown in Fig. 7, thus forming a rim dwhich lessens the abrasion of the periphery of the studhead. This stud-holding plate D is arranged within the base portion of the interior of the inner clamping-piece B when the base rim of the latter is turned inward against the edge of the stud-holding plate D, substantially as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 7, or vice versa, when the said plate will be securely held in place. Y

The inner clamping-piece B can be made of any of the forms shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5, or of any suitable form to furnish an inner clamp and to retain the stud-holding plate in position. The upper portion Z) of the clamping-piece B, prior to its insertion in opening a, is of a tubular form, corresponding in diameter and form with that of the opening a in the upper outer clamping-piece A, so as to have passage through the same a suiiicient distance to be turned outwardly and clinched down on the upper side of the margin of the opening a of piece A. When the parts of this button-head are to be secured to the fabric, the neck b of the inner clamping-piece B will be passed through a suitable perforation made in the material, when the outer clamping-piece A and its connected inclosing-shell C will be placed opposite the neck b of the inner clamping-piece B, when the neck b will be inserted in the perforation a of the outer clamping-piece A. The operator will then by suitable instrument force the outer clampingpiece and its inclosing-shell downward at the same time that the inner clamping-piece is being forced upward, when the upper edge of the neck b of the inner clamping-piece will strike the annular concavity c of the inclosing-shell C and be turned outwardly and over the edge of the central opening a. of the outer clamping-piece A, substantially as shown in Figs. l, 2, and 3, when the parts of the button-head will be securely united and the bases of clamping-pieces A and B iirmly clamp the fabric.

E is the stud, which is made of a bulb form, as shown. This stud E is secured to the basepiece F, and is provided with means for its ready attachment to the fabric, as will be hereinafter described.

In Fig. 9 stud E is shown in its incomplete state and ready to be secured to its base-piece F and to have its head end completely formed. This stud is shown in Fig. 9 to be made with a hollow or shell form, having its lower portion e contracted to a size corresponding with that of opening f in the base-washer,wl1ile its upper portion e is shown to be opened and with its sides about parallel. This stud E has its head end formed with a bulb-like form, as shown in Figs. 8 and 10, at the same time it is secured in the base-washer F. This may be effected by means of any suitable instrument applied to the opposite ends of the stud, so as to laterally expand the lower end of the contracted portion e from the form shown in Fig. 9 to that shown in Figs. 8 and 10, and at the same time contract and turn inwardly the upper portion e of the stud, so as to change its form from that shown in Fig. 9 to that shown in Figs. 8 and 10.

G is the upper clamping-piece for holding the stud with the fabric, and has in it the central opening g and the flange g', Fig. 11. This piece G is secured to the base-washer F of the stud by having its flange-rim g turned over the edge of said base F, or, if preferred, the base-washer F can have a Harige-rim. made with it and turned over the edge of piece G, the latter being divested of its rim g' to hold said parts together.

Il is an eyelet, Fig. 12, having its tubular portion h conformable to the opening g of piece G, so as to pass through the latter. When the stud is to be secured tothe fabric, the eyelet H will have its tubular portion h passed through a perforation made in the fabric, when the stud, with its pieces F and G, will be placed in position so that the tube portion h of the eyelet H, while passing through opening g in piece G, will strike against the convex surface of the expanded end of the contracted portion e of the stud E, when by a suitable instrument the upper edge of the eyelet will be forced between the upper side of clamping-piece G and the lower side of the piece F and will be turned outwardly all around and clinch on the upper side of the edge surrounding the circular perforation g of base G, and thereby securely clamp the material and hold the stud connected with the fabric. It is obvious thatthe stud E can be made elastic, if desired, by forming in its walls one or more slits T, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 10.

This case being a division made up from two applications, Serial No. 235,539 and 235,540, tiled April 20, 1887, certain subjectmatter of my applications shown therein, butnot claimed, is hereby claimed in this application'and the divisioni hereof filed October 14., 1889.

What I clailn as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-f- 1. In a button-head of a separable button, the combination, with an outer shell having a clinch-turning portion and secured to a second piece which has a central opening opposite said clinch-turning portion, of a lower side clamping-piece having the tube portion b and IOO a stud-engaging piece secured in place by the said lower side clamping-piece, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In a separable button-head, the combination of an exterior inclosing-sl1ell C, provided With the annular cavity c, the outer clamping-piece A, provided'with the central opening a and interlocked by its outer edge portion with said exterior shell, and an inner clamping-piece B, holding a stud-engaging piece and provided with the tubular-form neck b, Which has its upper end portion clinched on the margin of said central opening, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In a separable button-head, the combination of the exterior shell and an outer clamping-piece A, provided with a central opening a and connected with the exterior shell with an opposite side clamping-piece retaining a stud-engaging piece and provided with neck b, clinched over the walls of clamping-piece A.

4. In a separable button-stud, the combination of the base-piece F, provided with the opening f, the bulb E, provided with the ciroumferentially-reduced portion e, adapted to be inserted Within the opening f and laterally enlarged under the Walls thereof, the clamping-piece Gr, provided with opening g and peripherally attached to the piece F, and the eyelet H, provided With the neck h, inserted within the opening g and laterally enlarged over the Walls thereof, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

MADISON D. SHIPMAN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM F. SELKIRK, ALEX. SELKRK. 

